I don’t have the full specs of the board, but we’ll learn a little more below, in the meantime we can see two USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet ports, a 10GbE SFP cage, an mPCIe slot (I think), and two DB9 connector, as well as a bunch of other headers and connectors with SATA, GPIO, UART, I2C, SPI…

BAIKAL ELECTRONICS BAIKAL-T1 BFK BOARD BSP PACK
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This package contains Board Support Package for Baikal Electronics BFK board including Software Development Kit (SDK) for Baikal-T series SoCs.
It provide our customers with a comprehensive starting point for their Linux development efforts on MIPS32 platform. These packages are developed and tested to support 34K, 74K and P5600 MIPS processors. This SDK is tested for use with a given processor and its supporting development system, ensuring an operational toolchain, kernel and specific peripherals that are ready to use together within a fixed configuration for specific hardware reference platforms.

Baikal Linux SDK typically include Linux kernel, device drivers, libraries, simulator, and GNU Tools like compilers, linkers, etc. The documentation will provide detailed information on the version of the kernel, glibc, gcc, etc., as well as information about simulator is included within a specific SDK.

I don’t have the board, so I’m not going to go through all steps, but instead summarize what the user in the forum did after that.

Create image to be flash with the board using build-boot-img.sh script

Flash the image with dfu-util after having connected the board to your computer via USB.

The board should now boot to a serial console, but you’ll want to get OpenWrt 15.05 source code, patch it, build the rootfs, and flash it again with dfu-util.

Your Baikal T1 board should now be running OpenWrt

We can also get a few more details about the MIPS P5600 processor.

The reviewer also tested Gigabit performance using iperf, and data could be transferred at 830 Mbps. A Quick look at the source in the BSP reveals the Linux 4.4.24 is used on the board, together with Uboot 2014.10.

I could not find ways to buy the board online easily even in Russian. But if you represent a company interested in the solution, you might be able to get more information, and/or purchase the board by contacting the company via Baikal T1 product page.

Also, What is outputting the graphics? Is this a SoC with some sort of GPU?

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2 years ago

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willy

@AlexN
The reviewer shows the two first cores. Also the docs on the site show 2 cores as well, up to 1.2 GHz. It doesn’t seem high for a 10 GE chip, but if the purpose is to go beyond 1 Gbps, I think that with a clean internal architecture and good drivers they could possibly forward 2-4 Gbps.